Waking up to a more concious state (VERY WEIRD!)

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I was actually thinking about writing a post about this very same thing! Most of the time, I feel like I'm in something close to a state of near sleepfulness. Sometimes exercising—getting the blood flowing—feels like it "wakes me up," and I become more aware. It's like my environment becomes more intense and immediate. Colors become more vivid, and what I hear people say seems like it's being heard more immediately if that makes sense.

I'm not sure if this is quite the same as what everyone else is describing, but sometimes (usually when I'm overloaded), suddenly I become hyper-aware of everything around me - all the sensory stimuli is hitting me so much more intensely. It's overwhelming to the point where I'm mute and almost paralyzed. It happens suddenly, as if someone flipped a switch in my brain or something. Sometimes it'll go away on it's own just as suddenly and everything goes back to normal, other times I have to get out of those surroundings and go somewhere calm/quiet/be alone for a few minutes to get over it.

This may not be the same thing, but at times i stop and ask myself what i have been doing for the past few minutes. I know that i was watching tv or reading something, but i don't recall actually thinking anything during that time period. If im on the computer at the time i will continue clicking links and reading(autopilot), but i don't automatically remember what i was looking at or reading at the time. I have to think about it to actually remember. I've always thought of it as "day-dreaming" or "zoning out".

Could be the same thing, just effects each differently.

When? On a daily or more basis.

How- it's hard for me to describe to other people because they don't seem to experience it. It feels like I've suddenly come alive from sort of hibernation state in which I can walk around and function. What's particularly disconcerting is when it occurs while I'm driving: it's like a switch goes on and I'm now acutely aware of the road, of the other cars, the landscape, etc, and I don't remember the previous 10 miles!!

I think what it may be, is that life and the stimuli around me are too overwhelming so I go into a zoned out automaton state for most of the time, and then once in a while I snap out of it.

I feel like I have this all the time too (without hearing any noises though). Or at least several times a day. Doesn't everybody have this?

Yeah, that's sort of the same thing.

They only problem with me is that I only had it long ago when I was 4 years old, so I don't remember enough to describe it in more detail. I'm not sure if I remembered the past 10 minutes or not, when I "woke up".

Something similar happens to me sometimes if I'm stressed and/or tired...the filters my mind usually has in place to keep sensory input at manageable levels just drop. Most commonly what will happen is I start to hear *every*little*sound* around me...not louder, I just start to actually notice them. Most often this happens at work in response to work pressure (where "pressure" for me is often just a change in what I'm told to work on...you know how aspies don't like change in their environment.) When it happens I usually go sit in the bathroom with the door locked and the lights out for a while, until things settle down.

It can also happen wtih my vision somtimes, though Ihave better control over it. It causes me to flip into a sort of 180 degree vision mode where my attention is suddenly simultaneously on everything in my visual field at once, all the way to the edges of my vision. I actually use it sometimes when i'm driving in particularly heavy traffic, though it gives me a whopper of a headache to use it like that.

I also get the "waking up" thing sometimes, usually when I'm "zoning out" doing some programming or maybe listening to music or watching a tv show or movie. Something flips and all of a sudden I'm hyper-aware of where I am and what I'm doing all of a sudden.

Ya that same kind of thing happens to me.Its like there is to much stimuli and my brain goes into autopilot most of the time.Then every once in awhile I seem to notice every little thing.Oh,and I'm the most inobservant person you'll ever meet.Does anybody else have that problem.

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Perhaps you were occupied by an alien presence

I think its a sudden shift in focus, kind of like being awakened from a hypnotic trance at the snap of a finger. The first state may be a hyper-focus on something I'm doing, or watching, or otherwise absorbed in; sometimes its more of an internalized fugue, where I'm lost in my own thoughts - in both those states, the external world is filtered out to a great extent. Then when I snap out of it, the filters drop instantly and all the sensory stimuli in my surrounding environment crash over me in a disorienting tsunami.